"Closing Arguments" #10 Counting Days | Tom's Talmud Tisch on Sefirat Ha’Omer. Tract. Menachot, 66a
18COUNTING DAYS is a text-based Gemara mini-series focused on the Mitzvah of Sefirat Ha"Omer, the annual Post-Passover Counting of Days that leads us up to Shavuot -- the holiday commemorating the Giving of the Torah.
The series began with the Reaping of fresh Barley for the firstling grain offering called The Omer, the eponymous source for our national count-up commandment.
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Tractate Menachot, Page 66a -- CLOSING ARGUMENTS consolidates the various proofs lifted out of biblical verses to demonstrating the veracity of our Oral Tradition regarding the Mitzvah of Sefirat Ha'Oomer.
This Episode concludes the exhaustive effort to best prove precisely which by reviewing previously introduced proofs and highlighted their respective strengths and weaknesses to provide the fullest and most accurate documentation.
By returning to the varying teachings extrapolated from the syntax of the biblical verses to decode the messages they convey, and emphasizing the pitfalls that may or may not contain we are given the complete picture of certainty it its final conclusion.
This will end our digest of defenses from the theological attacks of ancient Heretical Jewish Sects, putting the subject to rest for posterity.
This teaching, comprising the tenth segment of our series on Sefirat Ha'Omer, has been sponsored by Eliezer and Esther Shefer to honour Eliezer's recently celebrated birthday!